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title: Daniel 5:2 (JPS 1917) — Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden… · tree and pragmatics
description: Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king and his lords, his consorts and his concubines, might drink therein. Who acts: Belshazzar, Nebuchadnezzar, temple, 
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# Daniel 5:2 · JPS 1917

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Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king and his lords, his consorts and his concubines, might drink therein.

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**Who acts:** Belshazzar, Nebuchadnezzar, temple, king · **What happens:** taste, command, bring, take out, be, drink · **To what, where:** wine, golden vessels, temple, Jerusalem · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Daniel 5:2 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Belshazzar, Nebuchadnezzar, temple, king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:DAN:145
# text = Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king and his lords, his consorts and his concubines, might drink therein.
1	Belshazzar	Belshazzar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	tasted	taste	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	vessels	vessel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obj	_	_
18	Nebuchadnezzar	Nebuchadnezzar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	acl:relcl	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	46	punct	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	lords	lord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	consorts	consort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	concubines	concubine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	_
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
45	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
47	therein	therein	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **taste** | past | Belshazzar | the wine |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme wine=Attribute |
| 2 | **command** | past | Belshazzar |  |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **bring** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Belshazzar *not said here* | the golden vessels |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent vessel=Theme |
| 4 | **take out** | past · perfect | Nebuchadnezzar | the golden vessels |  | the temple |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past | the temple |  |  | Jerusalem |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **drink** | might | the king and Belshazzar's lords and Belshazzar's consorts and Belshazzar's concubines |  |  |  |  | therein *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The Aramaic of this verse {#hebrew}

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בֵּלְשַׁאצַּ֞ר אֲמַ֣ר ׀ בִּטְעֵ֣ם חַמְרָ֗א לְהַיְתָיָה֙ לְמָאנֵי֙ דַּהֲבָ֣א וְכַסְפָּ֔א דִּ֤י הַנְפֵּק֙ נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּ֣ר אֲבוּ֔הִי מִן־הֵיכְלָ֖א דִּ֣י בִירוּשְׁלֶ֑ם וְיִשְׁתּ֣וֹן בְּה֗וֹן מַלְכָּא֙ וְרַבְרְבָנ֔וֹהִי שֵׁגְלָתֵ֖הּ וּלְחֵנָתֵֽהּ׃

[Daniel 5:2: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.2/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:DAN:145` of Mova's parse database.

**The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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